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 | | Greece joined the European Union in 1981 and adopted the Euro as its currency in 2001. |
 | | The economy has improved steadily over the last few years, as the government tightened policy in the run-up to Greece's entry into the EU's single currency, the euro, on January 1, 2001. |
 | | Reducing the government deficit is also a major challenge, notably after Eurostat revealed in 2004 that Greek government finance statistics, on the basis of which the European institutions accepted Greece to join the Euro zone, had been massively falsified. |
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